During the Black Plague, it was thought that bad smells were the cause of the plague. "Plague Doctors" therefore wore masks with long beak-like noses stuffed with flowers or smoke to hide the smells.
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There are pictures of Knights fighting Snails in old Medieval manuscripts - and nobody knows why.
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Because metal was scarce; the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster.
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Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
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The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
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France’s King Louis XIV was offered biological weapons by an Italian chemist. He not only refused, but also paid the chemist an annual salary to never reveal the technology to anyone else.
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In Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’
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The range of a medieval long-bow is 220 yards.
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